Work At Home Moms

[BananaCake]

Hello

Since we have all these great threads here that are geared toward certain groups of people, I thought I'd start one for Work At Home Moms.

Are there other WAHM's on the board formerly known as CF? What do you do? What are some of the challenges you've encountered balancing family and work life?

 

[heart of peace]

I know this thread is old but it was started around the time I first joined this forum. I'm hoping by bumping it, we can get some wahm chit chat going on.

I have been blessed to work from home for the last 2 years. I recently lost my job in January and have been looking for another long term project. I'm currently working a temporary project with ETS scoring essays from home.

I could definitely use the fellowship and to learn how others deal with the need to work and parent simulateneously (NOT an easy feat...lol)

 

[BananaCake]

Awesome! I hope others join us. If not, we can talk to each other

 

[heart of peace]

Hello there, BananaCake

I guess there aren't many wahm's here . What line of work are you in?

My shift was canceled tonight, so I get to read the book I've been wanting to read for the last month...lol

 

[Green Orchid]

I might start doing a little bit of translation work soon to help but it's just a few hours a month. So I'm a SAHM parttime WAHM!

 

[BananaCake]

I have 2 jobs. I direct a ministry 10 hours a week, and do bookkeeping about 3-4 hours a week. So I work mostly from home and a little bit outside of the home

 

[heart of peace]

Are you able to bring your child with you to the outside work?

 

[BananaCake]

Are you able to bring your child with you to the outside work?

The job that's only a couple hours a week, yes I only go in for 45 minutes to an hour, or however long he'll tolerate it. To the other job, no. I schedule it so my husband can watch the baby.

 

[heart of peace]

That is pretty cool. I wish that we had more jobs that allowed one to bring their children along. That is how children learned in years past. Children were not isolated from what their parents did all day, they watched and learned and saw their parents work. It was natural for the child to internalize this.

 

[heart of peace]

So, is there anything you miss about working out of the home?

 

[quitespirit]

I don't work from home, but would love to.
I work per diem during the school yr, and right now I am not getting as many hours as would be good for my budget. Then in the summer I won't work (at least outside the home) more then a day a week, tops. I'd love to supplement that from home.

So tell me: Where's the jobs?
Please and ty

Lianne

 

[llghoney]

I'm a soon to be mom & I work from home with our landscape business. I do the office work & run errands.

 

[Assisi]

Working from home is my long term goal, I think it'd be too complicated to work outside the home with a large family. But I just don't know how to get there. How did you get into working from home?

 

[Jilly123]

I'm a work at home mom.

I work for a British magazine and website doing all sorts of admin type stuff (eg: uploading the magazine articles and pictures onto the website, answering subscribers queries, setting up usernames and passwords for the website etc.etc.).

I love the work I do, but it is very time-consuming and I find there is definitely a down-side to working from home. I just can't seem to escape work. I have way too much work to do so I end up working in the evenings and on weekends.

The plus side is that I get to be home with my 2 year old, which was the most important thing for me. I wouldn't trade it for working outside of our home for anything, even though it's hard work balancing everything.

I ideally would love to be self-employed and able to work from home. That way I can work as much or little as I want.

 

[heart of peace]

Jilly, I couldn't even have considered doing any work that required phone time until fairly recently with my son. How do you do it?

So, my old employer who let me go in January called me yesterday and left a message wanting to know "what I'm up to these days." If he asks me to begin working for him again (there was quite a bit of drama towards the end of my time with him) I'm going to demand more money and to do all my week's work in 4 days instead of 5. We'll see if he still wants to see "what I'm up to" after that...lol

I miss wearing professional outfits to work and the adult socialization a bit. But the benefit of working from home and raising my child far outweighs what I miss from out the home work. That's why I come here to get some sort of adult stimulation. CF is my watercooler time...lol

(quitespirit and Assisi, I PM'd you)

 

[Jilly123]

Jilly, I couldn't even have considered doing any work that required phone time until fairly recently with my son. How do you do it?

LOL, I don't!! I only deal with email queries. I told my boss when I first started working that there is no way I would be able to phone. Only my email address is on the website, so that's the only way people can get hold of me. Thankfully, other than that I don't have much contact with people, it's mostly just administration stuff. Isn't the internet a wonderful thing?

CF is also my water cooler time, although I really shouldn't be on here, I have loads of work to do

 

[ThreeTimesBlessed]

I'm a WAHM as well. I am an Administrative Assistant to a PR firm. The entire "company" works from their homes - it's wonderful. I LOVE the internet, it makes it possible for us to do things like...well..work form home! lol Anyway, I mostly do stuff like Internet research, take notes on conference calls, send out press releases, track publication, transcription. I'm sort of a jack of all trades. But honestly..I get paid a set amount each month, and I do very little work. I am so very blessed - my employers really like the work that I do for them, but I honestly feel like they are paying me to take care of my own children. God is wonderful!

I do miss GOING to work sometimes. And there are moments when I just need a break. I have 3 kids - Elijah's 4, Azalyah's 3, and Abigail is 1...and some days my head is spinning. But 90% of the time, I LOVE LOVE LOVE what I do.

~Newbie Anita

 

[heart of peace]

Welcome ThreeTimeBlessed. You sound busy! Glad to have you join us.

 

[Mayzoo]

Work at home mom too. I am a pharmacy broker, and post opening I do the bookkeeping and keep the pharmacies in good standing with the state.

For the most part--love it.

 

[lottepotte]

I am a lawyer and own a company. Right now I have children 2 months, 3 and 5 years old and I am involved only in some desicions and tracking cash flow... but today unexpectedly I brought with only little effort a new client to our company. That must be pure grace and blessing .